Hope Hodge Seck

Hope Hodge Seck is an award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter who has been covering military issues since 2009. She is the former managing editor for Military.com.

Hope’s previous assignments have included a war zone embed in Afghanistan with Marines and multiple reporting trips aboard amphibious ships and aircraft carriers. Her awards include multiple North Carolina Press Association Honors, the 2015 and 2017 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Heinl awards for feature writing, the Military Reporters and Editors Association 2015 award for domestic military coverage, and the 2016 American Legion 4th Estate Award for print reporting. She is also a member of the board of directors at the Military Reporters and Editors Association.

A graduate of The King's College in New York City, her work has also appeared in Marine Corps Times, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Sun, and World Magazine.

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paratroopers airborne operation in Deadhorse, Alaska

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A gold U.S. Air Force F-16A Falcon from the Iowa Air National Guard.

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The bow of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star as it breaks ice in Antarctica.

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The unique way that PFC Harold Schultz carrried his rifle -- because of a broken shoulder strap -- helped identify him as the sixth man represented by the iconic Iwo Jima memorial.

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PFC Harold Schultz, USMC, was misidentified in the iconic 1945 photo of the Iwo Jima flag-raising during World War II.

The Hexa, an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, hovers in the air during its first test flight at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

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Artist’s rendering of the Navy's HELIOS shipboard laser weapon. (Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin)

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Thomas Webster at a barricade line at on the west front of the U.S. Capitol

Marines, Infantry Most Highly Represented Among Veterans Arrested After Capitol Riot

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Marine Who Witnessed Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Dies Before Battle's 76th Anniversary

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U.S. Army soldier lets a group of Afghan girls play with her ponytail.

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Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston did not say when the change would be made official, and added that the precise rule...

Michelle Black places a rose on her husband's casket in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery.

Four Years After Her Husband's Death in Niger, a Gold Star Wife Tells His Story

Her memoir-investigation hybrid book was pieced together from interviews with the surviving soldiers.

U.S. Marine receives final instructions prior to assaulting an objective during training

After Outcry from Female Vets in Congress, Pentagon Revives Committee on Women in Service

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